Why does the New York City skyline look the way it does? In part, because of what happened there 500 million years ago, says ...
More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The ...
Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...
Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...
From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...
Fifty-two billion people—almost half of the cumulative human population—are thought to have perished at the hands of a creature no bigger than a fingernail: the mosquito. In his new book The Mosquito: ...
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